Offbeat Shorts

75 minutes
Offbeat Shorts

Visually and emotionally baffling works of art that will please anyone who’s brave enough to face a journey of abstract animation.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2019

Showing in this program

4:3

4:3

  • Ross Hogg
  • United Kingdom, 2019
  • 4 min.

Separate projections combine, unifying, becoming whole.
Twelve animated projections combine to develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the intrinsic relationship between sound and image using 16mm film, paint and a projector.
Responding to a hand-drawn soundtrack, each projection is individually created by painting and scratching directly on 16mm film stock.

Adorable

Adorable

  • Cheng-Hsu Chung
  • Taiwan / United Kingdom, 2018
  • 5 min.

ADORABLE is an animated film that presents a journey of a queer person where he explores his sexuality and the queer community.

After Disappearing

After Disappearing

  • Mai Calon
  • Belgium, 2018
  • 4 min.

The poetry of the white canvas, the possibilities, the waiting and the expectation. The white city, the morning mist, finding meaning, content. Folding or unfolding. The less I show, the more you see.

And then the bear

And then the bear

  • Agnès Patron
  • France, 2019
  • 13 min.
Dont Know What

Dont Know What

  • Thomas Renoldner
  • Austria, 2018
  • 8 min.
Half Asleep

Half Asleep

  • Caibei Cai
  • United Kingdom, 2018
  • 5 min.

One room, two half bodies, a silent relationship.

No Objects

No Objects

  • Moïa Jobin-Paré
  • Canada, 2019
  • 6 min.

Textures, repetition, vibrations, oscillations and sounds: the image is heard. Scratched and scarred photos form a cascading avalanche of shapes, a choreography of people performing repetitive tasks, their silhouettes etched directly onto the surface. No Objects is the work of an artist who views the image as a hybrid of matter and motion. Gestures and sleight of hand are everything. Bodies are transformed by light as the moving images in this experimental short speak for themselves, their impact amplified by an intense sound design. No Objects offers both a bracing and contemplative meditation on the tactile world.

Serial Parallels

Serial Parallels

  • Max Hattler
  • Hong Kong / Germany, 2019
  • 9 min.

This experimental animation approaches Hong Kong’s built environment from the conceptual perspective of celluloid film, by applying the technique of film animation to the photographic image. The city’s signature architecture of horizon-eclipsing housing estates is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips: Serial Parallels.

Trauma Chameleon

Trauma Chameleon

  • Gina Kamentsky
  • United States, 2019
  • 2 min.

An escaped laboratory rat navigates through a sea of punctuation.

Uprising

Uprising

  • Steven Woloshen
  • Canada, 2019
  • 3 min.

Light - Movement - Time - Memory - Joy